Part of the book is the section on the criminally insane Professor Stillman's Me than I should be comfortable revealing, but I actually think the best But if you're an Auster fan,Ī private eye or noir enthusiast, or just haven't outgrown comics generally, I tend to doubt that Paul Auster's brand of existential musings willĪppeal to all tastes and I'm sure some will simply find the idea of readingĪ comic book to be beyond the pale. Sleeve never mind the obvious nod to mysteries of the 30's and 40's, itĮven goes so far as to discuss Cervantes and his metafictional innovations Work is such a throwback that it unabashedly wears its antecedents on its Their metafictional techniques are revolutionary and profound.

In post-modern literature, the way in which its practitioners act as if And, like William Goldman's Princessīride, that sense of fun serves to lighten what can often be most ponderous Identities and allusions to other works that the comic book format is especially The genre end up back in comic book form, however glorified.Īctually, Auster himself indulges in so many games with language, shifting It seems only natural to have this most modern (or post-modern) riff on Since many of the great hard boiled dicks first appeared in pulp fiction, Implicit in film noir : identity, fate, good and evil, randomness, etc. In a sense it brings the story full circle, because in the original novelĪuster used the conventions of the private eye story to explore the issues Graphic novel version of City of Glass by Paul Auster is terrific. I don't know how Neon Lit fared with the rest of the project, but this (adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli)

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